Microsoft just added a small feature to the Outlook app, but it's one that's going to be incredibly useful and potentially save you time.

Starting today, you can minimize an email, switch to another task, and then return to your message.

No more digging through drafts

If you're like me, you often send emails on your phone. If you find yourself writing a message and then needing to find a piece of information, though, the process is clunky.

Let's say you're sending an email but need to check your calendar or copy something from a text. You have to exit your email entirely, find the information, go back to your email app, find your message in drafts, open it again, and continue. It's not necessarily a huge inconvenience, but it's frustrating -- especially if you're in a hurry.

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With Microsoft's new feature, you don't have to dig through drafts to see what you were working on. Just tap the minimize button, and your message will shrink to the bottom, where you can tap the button to open it right back up. You can easily look through other emails or head to another app entirely if you need to.

If you switch out of a Gmail message, it adds the draft to the current thread, making it easy to find if you're replying to a message at the top of your inbox. If it's a new message or you're replying to an older one, though, off to your drafts you go.

Availability

The feature is slowly rolling out, so you might not see it just yet. Microsoft says it's coming to Android Beta users running version 4.2447.0 or later and iOS TestFlight users running version 4.2449.0 or later first.

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I'm primarily a Gmail user, and I can say this is an issue I run into nearly every day. If Google were to add a similar feature, it would instantly make my daily messaging a little faster and more convenient.

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